GRE Word List
MALADROIT
lacking adroitness : inept
The meaning of the word maladroit is lacking adroitness : inept.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| painstaking | taking pains : expending, showing, or involving diligent care and effort |
| vagrant | one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support |
| protrude | to jut out from the surrounding surface or context |
| slick | having a smooth surface : slippery |
| prodigal | characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure : lavish |
| indignity | an act that offends against a person's dignity or self-respect : insult |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| bound | fastened by or as if by a band : confined |
| exalt | to raise in rank, power, or character |